How does the design of school spaces affect how students learn? What role does technology play? And how are these spaces entangled with inequalities? In a full-day workship on Friday 13 December, I’ll be discussing these issues with teachers and school leaders from in and around Oldenburg. We’ll be sharing observations (from RED) and other research findings about how the design of classroom spaces can impact student learning, behaviour and well-being. This also means considering what unexpected things happen when careful plans meet “real life”. And we will be brainstorming the question of resources – especially for under-served schools.
“Affordances” is likely to be an important word. “Participation” will also make an appearance. And perhaps (with a nod to Ursula K. Le Guin) “imagination” is more helpful than “creativity”.
The event is organised together with the “Arbeitsstelle Schulentwicklung” (Task Force for School Development) at the University of Oldenburg’s Centre for Teacher Education.
As inspiration, here is an image we have used in the Re:Lab with the title of “how not to design the classroom of the future?”
